St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Data in a new study points to large annual costs and excessive municipal regulations in the St. Louis region. This comes from the first of a series of reports released Monday by Better Together. In 2014, St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and the ninety municipal governments in St. Louis County spent…
( KTRS ) Lawmakers from the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus are releasing a report about how the state’s budget stalemate is impacting the black population. Illinois has been operating without a spending plan since July 1, with Democrats who control the Legislature and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in a standoff over how to proceed. Democrats…
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) – Police say a fatal shooting was prompted by an argument over loud music at an apartment building in south Maryland Heights. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1J6fJSm ) that a 35-year-old man died in a local hospital shortly after suffering multiple gunshot wounds around 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the Bennington…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Amtrak says that its passenger numbers in Illinois fell to about 1.3 million in the latest fiscal year, or a decline of about 4 percent. The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports (http://bit.ly/1NXLsGO) that the passenger rail service attributes the drop to low gasoline prices and high-speed rail construction between Chicago and St.…
( KTRS ) Charges have been filed against a 23 yr old man for shooting at a Police officer, after a traffic stop went bad. Authorities report that Nathaniel Anderson has been charged with two counts of Unlawful Use of a Weapon, two counts of Armed Criminal Action and two counts of Resisting Arrest. Last…
PERRYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A longtime Missouri elected official who was convicted of swindling an elderly woman out of more than $80,000 says he plans to keep his job after being sentenced to two seven-year prison terms. Perry County Coroner Herbert Miller’s sentence was suspended Friday and he was placed on five years of probation.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Planned Parenthood branch is refusing to give records related to abortions to the Republican-led state Senate. Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri told The Associated Press Friday it won’t provide a Senate committee with abortion procedure documents. A Planned Parenthood lawyer in a letter…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis homicide detectives are investigating after two people were shot on the parking lot of a community center on the city’s north side. The shooting happened Friday afternoon during a memorial service at New Northside Conference Center. Police spokeswoman Schron Jackson says one of victims died and the other was…
